RELIEF REQUIRMENTS
10,000,000 NEED SUCCOUR SHANGHAI, Sunday. Tho clearest picture drawn of the MankoW floods is contained in a .tatement from the National Flood Relief Commission, outlining the relief requirements. Preliminary estiinates are that 1Q, 000, 000 nee4 succouring for six months and 1,000,000 tons of foodstuffs are necessary to earry the population through the winter. Hence America's surplus wheat shipments of 450,000. tons, purchased by the Nanking Government, are consdered only half sufficen1 for relef worlc n the Yangtse Valley. The rice crop is expected to yield a third of the usual crop, the deficiency representing 200,000,000 hushels. There is a proportionate drop in the vegetable crops. The river is steadily dropping. Pumping has commenced. A hosiptal ship is outfitting, and will shortly leave for upriver. Refugee camps are springing up everywhere and thousands of refugees are arriving daily.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 September 1931, Page 3
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